Jeremiah 50:21-32

²¹ "Attack Merathaim, land of rebels! Go after Pekod, country of doom! Hunt them down. Make a clean sweep." God's Decree. "These are my orders. Do what I tell you. ²² "The thunderclap of battle shakes the foundations! ²³ The Hammer has been hammered, smashed and splintered, Babylon pummeled beyond recognition. ²⁴ I set out a trap and you were caught in it. O Babylon, you never knew what hit you, Caught and held in the steel grip of that trap! That's what you get for taking on God. ²⁵ "I, God, opened my arsenal. I brought out my weapons of wrath. The Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, has a job to do in Babylon. ²⁶ Come at her from all sides! Break into her granaries! Shovel her into piles and burn her up. Leave nothing! Leave no one! ²⁷ Kill all her young turks. Send them to their doom! Doom to them! Yes, Doomsday! The clock has finally run out on them. ²⁸ And here's a surprise: Runaways and escapees from Babylon Show up in Zion reporting the news of God's vengeance, taking vengeance for my own Temple. ²⁹ "Call in the troops against Babylon, anyone who can shoot straight! Tighten the noose! Leave no loopholes! Give her back as good as she gave, a dose of her own medicine! Her brazen insolence is an outrage against God, The Holy of Israel. ³⁰ And now she pays: her young strewn dead in the streets, her soldiers dead, silent forever." God's Decree. ³¹ "Do you get it, Mister Pride? I'm your enemy!" Decree of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies. "Time's run out on you: That's right: It's Doomsday. ³² Mister Pride will fall flat on his face. No one will offer him a hand. I'll set his towns on fire. The fire will spread wild through the country."